How Much Does an AED Cost? Purchase Price & Funding Solutions
It’s hard to put a price on saving someone’s life, but the machines that help do require a budget. At GotAED, we understand and appreciate how tight budgets can be for youth-related organizations and schools. We don’t want something like AED cost to ever be the reason a child was unable to get the life-saving help they needed, especially as children are often overlooked as potential victims of sudden cardiac arrest.
If your organization is in need of an AED on its premises but is hampered by the cost of an AED, let us help you start a campaign to fund it.
Aspects Affecting the Cost of an AED
Like any other appliance or tool, there are various models of AEDs with various specs. Like most things, the more bells and whistles, the costlier the AED becomes. However, all AEDs come with the most important features – battery, defibrillator pads, and the ability to assess the victim and deliver a life-saving shock, if needed. Depending on the age of your children, you may want to consider pediatric pads too. That said, AEDs can retail for anywhere between $1,100 – $2,500.
However, there is more to just the initial price tag when purchasing an AED. You will need a place to store the AED. You will also need to replace the pads and battery over time.
How GotAED Helps Youth Organizations Offset AED Costs
GotAED is an initiative of Simon’s Heart, a nonprofit organization that is committed to preventing sudden cardiac arrest and death in children. The purpose of GotAED is to provide a route for youth-serving nonprofit organizations to acquire an AED without the cost being an obstruction. A tight budget should never get in the way of an organization’s ability to save a life. Too many times, youth-focused organizations have had to put acquiring an AED aside simply because of budgetary restraints.
The Campaign Process
GotAED gives community youth organizations a way to get the AED they need by letting them quickly and easily set up a campaign through our site and begin raising funds. The process is straightforward. We know how precious time can be, especially for organizations that are run by volunteers. Since our mission is to help get AEDs out there to every youth facility that needs one, of course, we strive to make it as easy as possible. The factors that affect the AED price depend on the way your organization wants to store the device as well as the sales tax for your state. Once the campaign is fully funded, both the AED device and storage container is delivered right to your door. In order to be as supportive as we can, we also partner with ProjectADAM to help organizations create cardiac emergency response plans for their youth facility. Having such a plan in place is crucial to successfully benefit from the AED on hand. If you or any of your colleagues ever finds themselves in the awful situation of rendering aid to a child suffering from sudden cardiac arrest, you’ll be glad you have the resources in place to help you know exactly the steps you need to take to save the child’s life.
We love being able to serve the purpose we do. Within our first year, GotAED was able to help 30 different youth-serving entities, from schools to clubs, libraries, community centers, museums, and more, get an AED in place in 15 different states.
When AED Cost is Prohibitive
The benefits of having an AED available on premises are unrefuted. Countless lives have been saved by those who have had access to an AED during a time when they were faced with a person suffering sudden cardiac arrest. If your youth-focused organization would like to acquire an AED for your premises, but is having difficulty because of the AED price tag, we’d love to help you get there. Connect with us and we will work with your community organization to create a crowdfunding campaign aimed at getting the funds you will need to buy an AED.
